This is the $149 Fry's Electronics PC that's sold with LinSpire with 128M of Ram and 40G harddrive. I of course wiped Linspire and put KnoppMyth on the 40 G harddrive. I added in 512M of ram I had lying about and 160G harddrive for /myth and added my air2pc rev 0.2 tuner. Install was easy and mythtv-setup found my card just fine.

And for a $149 PC, it's pretty nice. By removing the modem (bah, who needs one?) I have 4 PCI slots, it has a 8x AGP slot, supports 8 USB2.0 ports (would need 2 brackets for the last 4 though it doesn't come with), supports 2 COM ports (would need a bracket for com2).

This is a backend only as its only purpose is to record ts files that can be played over the network (via tapeworm & samba) on a winxp pc running a MyHD HD decoding card.

One of the real benefits of the geode chip is that it is not overly heat producing and low energy consumption.

This is the $149 Fry's Electronics PC that's sold with LinSpire with 128M of Ram and 40G harddrive. I of course wiped Linspire and put KnoppMyth on the 40 G harddrive. I added in 512M of ram I had lying about and 160G harddrive for /myth and added my air2pc rev 0.2 tuner. Install was easy and mythtv-setup found my card just fine.

And for a $149 PC, it's pretty nice. By removing the modem (bah, who needs one?) I have 4 PCI slots, it has a 8x AGP slot, supports 8 USB2.0 ports (would need 2 brackets for the last 4 though it doesn't come with), supports 2 COM ports (would need a bracket for com2).

I have one of these GQ Fry's specials. In fact, I think I have the same one. I bought it as a "project computer" that I could expariment with. One thing I want to do is try Knoppmyth on it, set it up as a backend or NFS. I'm happy to hear that I shouldn't have too much trouble!

This is the $149 Fry's Electronics PC that's sold with LinSpire with 128M of Ram and 40G harddrive. I of course wiped Linspire and put KnoppMyth on the 40 G harddrive. I added in 512M of ram I had lying about and 160G harddrive for /myth and added my air2pc rev 0.2 tuner. Install was easy and mythtv-setup found my card just fine.One of the real benefits of the geode chip is that it is not overly heat producing and low energy consumption.

I wonder how it is going after 7 months? Any issues that were not readily apparent?

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